netdev - Re: [v2] vhost: add vsock compat ioctl

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Date:   Thu, 22 Mar 2018 09:25:35 +0000
From:   Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...il.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     sonnyrao@...omium.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v2] vhost: add vsock compat ioctl

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 7:30 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> Although the top level ioctls are probably size and layout compatible,
> I do not think that the deeper ioctls can be called by compat binaries
> without some translations in order for them to work.

I audited the vhost ioctl code when reviewing this patch and was
unable to find anything that would break for a 32-bit userspace
process.

drivers/vhost/net.c does the same thing already, which doesn't prove
it's correct but makes me more confident I didn't miss something while
auditing the vhost ioctl code.

Did you have a specific ioctl in mind?

Stefan